"The soil was adequately prepared for some of the great bildungsromans of modern India: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's f…"

"The death in November of the well-beloved novelist, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay, in his fifties, leaves a void in t…"

"I thought that while Gurudeva Rabindranath was the greatest poet of modem times, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyaya could …"

"The great Buddhist monk and scholar, Atsa, who went to Tibet in AD 1308 to preach Buddhism, ; came from the Dhaka are…"

"On August 15 the provincial government in Dacca was fugitive in its own home. It was faced with immediate problems of…"

"Dacca is a tropical, impoverished, polluted, and verdant river city, in the middle of the great part-submerged marsh …"

"Dhaka, once known as a city of mosques or the Venice of the east, will soon become a city of shopping malls—a shapele…"

"The city is the largest in Bengal, and it manufactures cotton and silk the best and cheapest. The plenty and cheapnes…"

"...But this brilliant period in the history of the city came to a sudden end. At the whim of a viceroy it had risen. …"

"In Dhaka, Muslims have started riots with the complicity of the police. They attacked the houses of the Hindus, raped…"